22 Staffers Resign At Al-Jazeera Over Claims Of Biased Coverage In Egypt

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According to an article in Gulf News, 22 members of staff have resigned due to the Qatar-based network's coverage. Anchor Karem Mahmoud reportedly said that those who resigned quit after “biased coverage” of the events in Egypt, and that the group had been ordered to favor the ousted Muslim Brotherhood over the newly formed, military-backed government.

The coverage over the last few weeks was the tipping point – especially the airing of extreme speeches over the last few days, which have added to the crisis Egypt is seeing right now. There has been a strong insistence of airing unacceptable statements by some parties, as well giving much more space and air time to one group over another.

Daily News Egypt earlier reported that two anchors have resigned from the station, including ten-year veteran reporter Hegag Salama, who reportedly told a Cairo-based TV station that Al Jazeera had “become an enemy of Egypt.”

Al Jazeera has long been perceived as being close to the Muslim Brotherhood, and whether the accusations of bias are true or not, it appears to be severely hurting the network's ability to report on the crisis in Egypt. At a military-organized news conference earlier today, reporters from the network were kicked out, the Associated Press reports, while Reuters reports that some of the station's offices were raided by the military (though it remains on-air).

Amusingly enough, Rand Paul decided to dip his oar in the water and compare it to our military removing a Democrat President to install a Republican one, apparently as ignorant of the reality of what Morsi was doing to Egyptian Constitutional government as the entire Obama Administration was about the state of affairs in Honduras a couple of years ago, when they condemned the Hondo military for removing a President who was trying to take over and become El Supremo Por Vivo.

Hard to say. If a cable network falls in the forest, and has no subscribers, did it make a sound?

Originally Posted by DumbAss Tanker

Amusingly enough, Rand Paul decided to dip his oar in the water and compare it to our military removing a Democrat President to install a Republican one, apparently as ignorant of the reality of what Morsi was doing to Egyptian Constitutional government as the entire Obama Administration was about the state of affairs in Honduras a couple of years ago, when they condemned the Hondo military for removing a President who was trying to take over and become El Supremo Por Vivo.

Obama has shown one major area of consistency in his tenure, which is that he can be counted on to side against any American ally in any conflict, hence his support for Morsi, Ahmedinejad and the Honduran Chavez wannabe, but his snubbing of allies such as Gordon Brown (not so much an ally, as the leader of an allied nation) and, of course, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Originally Posted by NJCardFan

Nobody knows because they have less viewers now than before Gore sold to AJ.